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September 09, 2011

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Based on the approximately zero traction both candidates have gotten and their mutual distance from the Republican primary electorate, it's hard at times to figure out why former Gov. Jon Huntsman is treated as a major candidate while former Gov. Gary Johnson is generally cast into the outer media darkness.

It turns out Gary Johnson sometimes wonders about this too:

"I think that my passing him in the polls is just as arbitrary as my being behind him in the polls, and I don't want to pick on him," Johnson told POLITICO's Emily Schultheis this afternoon. "I'm the one on the bubble in every one of these debates, and I can't tell you why. It's really frustrating, and so like I say, for me to say that I'm ahead of Jon Huntsman, that's just. that's an aberration in that poll just as much as an aberration tomorrow would be that I'm behind him in that poll."

"I'm going to guess that Huntsman has outspent me 15 to 1, maybe 20 to 1. How is it that even from an aberration standpoint that I can be ahead of him?" he said. "I think based on what I've done politically and what I've done in my life that I should have a seat at the table.

"When Huntsman got publicity for saying, 'Let's rethink Afghanistan' --I've been saying that all along," he said. "It's like these are revolutionary things, being attributed to these people as original thoughts."

Johnson said he's planning a bike ride across New Hampshire, from town hall to town hall.

"I'm having to resort to circus acts and I just want you to know I'm not beyond that," he said.

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